Why is fear of crime so rife in society today? The government and media have ploughed money and resources into surveys and initiatives to find out. As a concept, 'fear of crime' has produced considerable academic debate, and this book brings together a collection of new and cutting edge articles from key scholars in criminology which question the orthodoxy of 'fear of crime' models.

1. Criticial Voices in an Age of Anxiety: A Re-Introduction to the Fear of Crime (Stephen Farrall & Murray Lee)2: The “Moral Panic” That Wasn’t: the Sixties Crime Issue in the U.S (Dennis Loo)3: The Enumeration Of Anxiety: Power, Knowledge & Fear Of Crime (Murray Lee)4: Critical geopolitics and everyday fears (Susan Smith & Rachel Pain)5: Preventing Indeterminate Threats: Fear, Terror, and the Politics of Pre-emption (Leanne Weber & Murray Lee)6: Being Feared: Masculinity and Race in Public Space (Kris Day)7: Untangling the web: Deceptive responding in fear of crime research (Robbie Sutton & Stephen Farrall)8: Anxiety, Defensiveness and the Fear of Crime (David Gadd & Tony Jefferson)9: Bridging the Social and the Psychological in the Fear of Crime (Jonathan Jackson)10: State-trait Anxiety and Fear of crime: A Social Psychological Perspective (Derek Chadee, Nikiesha J. Virgil & Jason Ditton)11: Revisiting fear of crime in Bondi and Marrickville: sense of community and perceptions of safety (Mike Enders & Christine Jennett with Marian Tulloch)12: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety: Ending with the identification of where to begin... (Murray Lee & Stephen Farrall)